5. —Jack, could I use your laptop for a while?—_________. Go ahead, please.
The novel is so badly written that I can hardly ________what the writer is trying to say.
It can’t be a (n) ______ that four jewelry stores were robbed in one night.
— Hi, Jack, would you like to join us in the sightseeing this weekend?—Thank you, but I regret ______ you that I can’t, for I’m going to visit my grandparents.
With his eyes ______ the family album, he thought of the fun he had when he lived with his parents.
None of us expected that the chairman ______ at the party. We thought he was still in hospital.